TV tuner install on Ubuntu with PPA

PPA makes it easy to install Hauppauge TV tuners with Ubuntu. PPA's are the only way to get Hauppauge drivers updated in Ubuntu between distro releases. Hauppauge's engineering team has developed the PPA for our TV tuners.

Hauppauge's PPA has support for the following models of Hauppauge TV tuners

PPA installation instructions for TV tuner driver on Ubuntu

Open Terminal in Ubuntu The easiest way to open terminal is to right click on desktop and select Open Terminal. You can also click Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard.

In Terminal, type the following or copy and paste the following lines, one by one, then click enter.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:b-rad/kernel+mediatree+hauppauge

After this first line, click enter when prompted to add this PPA.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-image-mediatree

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-mediatree

Note: if you are using a Hauppauge DVB TV tuner in Europe or Australia/New Zealand, please also install the TV firmware:

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-hauppauge

Close Terminal and restart your computer.

You can now connect your Hauppauge WinTV TV tuner to your computer and it should be available for use by your Linux TV watching application.

Notes

If you'd like to see the latest directions from the GIT repository, click here

We do not currently support LTS Enablement Stacks under Ubuntu Linux 16.04.2 Xenial. For more information about LTS Enablement Stack please visit this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack